dream gardens

Whether the garden of your dreams is a landscaped estate, a paved tulip filled courtyard or just the neighbour’s lawn glimpsed over the privet hedge, Barbara Baker’s Dream Gardens of England is sure to inspire.


Beautifully photographed throughout, the gardens range from spaces ordered with topiary and box hedging to wilder meadows and picturesque orchards.

Gardens are at once real places and sites of fantasy. Baker’s book prompts reflections on this relationship between fact and fiction and the nature of gardens as sites of imagination, planning, planting, and sheer hardwork.

Barbara Baker’s Dream gardens of England 100 Inspirational Gardens is available, priced £24.95